Kleiner Spreewald Park
The Kleine Spreewald-Park - also just known as the Kleiner Spreewald - is a leisure and park facility in Schöneiche near Berlin .
Location and description
On an area of around 4.5 hectares , in the middle of Schöneiche, there is a small artificial river system and an enclosed pond with a water feature called a dinosaur . Dinomaurier is a dinosaur adorned with around 500 ceramic reliefs . It is 116 meters long and lies in wait for visitors on a stone wall. The reliefs were designed by students from Schöneiche. The pond was originally the swimming pool of an outdoor pool from the 1930s. Until the beginning of the 1990s, tickets for the bathroom were sold in the white wooden kiosks. There is also a children's playground and a herb garden as well as adventure trails (water path, art path, path of the senses and geological path) and a nature trail to the park.
history
In the 1920s, the innkeeper Max Mann built a canal system on the property of his forest castle , which was fed from the Fredersdorfer Mühlenfließ . On this his customers could be driven around on Spreewald barges. He had procured the first corresponding boat himself directly from the Spreewald . By the nearby tram , which Schoeneiche with the straight Berlin eingemeindeten district Berlin-Friedrichshagen union, was Mann's Little Spreewald become a popular destination Berlin.
In 1933 the construction of an open-air swimming pool began, which was completed soon afterwards. This outdoor pool was in operation until the early 1990s. Today the facility is part of the nature and adventure park.
After the Second World War , the restaurant with the associated barge operation was operated by the GDR trade organization (HO) . After the decline in the number of guests in the late 1960s, the last boat trip was made in 1972. In the following years the canals became muddy, but the restaurant and hall was continued.
In the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, the restaurant became a very popular weekend meeting place for the blues and customer scene . Some of them came from all over East Berlin to live their politically nonconformist ideas of "being different" . Here u played a. such well-known bands as Pankow , Karat or Karussell .
After the fall of the Wall , the restaurant was closed in 1990 and the buildings fell into disrepair.
In 1997 the Naturschutzaktiv Schöneiche e. V. and the women's group Lebensart e. V. with plans for a park on the vacant site. Two years later, the nature and adventure park was opened. The Schöneich artist Erika Doberstein played a key role in the reactivation and redesign of the park.
Since then, the Kleine Spreewald-Park has been in constant change. When the water level is high, punt trips take place on the canal system, an adventure playground invites children to run around, and the park can be explored on adventure trails - including guided tours (water trail, art trail, nature trail, path of the senses, geological trail and herb garden).
In the TonART children's summer workshop, the longest open-air gallery was built as a relief field stone wall (116 m), which borders the park to the east, under the sponsorship of the nature conservation activist and with the participation of the Small Spreewald Park Association and hundreds of children from the area. In 2013 the wall was honored with one of ten prizes as part of the “Most Beautiful Street in Germany” project.
Web links
- Kleiner Spreewald-Park on the website of the Green Honeycomb Association
- Private website about the Little Spreewald Park
- The "Kleine Spreewald Park" opens . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 14, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ A touch of Gaudí in the Kleiner Spreewald . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 9, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 23 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 47" E